{"id":"CVE-2024-41816","aliases":["EUVD-2024-39201","GHSA-3gw3-2qjq-xqjj"],"status":"published","title":"WordPress Cooked Plugin Persistent Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode","description":"Cooked is a recipe plugin for WordPress. The Cooked plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Persistent Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) via the ‘[cooked-timer]’ shortcode in versions up to, and including, 1.8.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with subscriber-level access and above to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses a compromised page. This issue has been addressed in release version 1.8.1. All users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.","severity":{"version":"3.1","score":5.4,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","level":"medium","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-10","score":0.00381,"percentile":0.32392,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-79"],"published":"2024-08-05T20:12:41Z","modified":"2026-10-28T02:30:53Z","products":[{"vendor":"boxy studio","product":"cooked"},{"vendor":"boxystudio","product":"cooked"},{"vendor":"goratech","product":"cooked"},{"vendor":"xjsv","product":"cooked"}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/XjSv/Cooked/security/advisories/GHSA-3gw3-2qjq-xqjj","tags":["x_refsource_CONFIRM","Exploit","Vendor Advisory","advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/XjSv/Cooked/commit/ac7455bdccc99fb2f5b3c7611312947c1623c3ec","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","Patch","fix"]},{"url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/41xxx/CVE-2024-41816.json","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-41816","tags":["advisory"]}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2024-41816","title":"WordPress Cooked Plugin Persistent Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode","description":"Cooked is a recipe plugin for WordPress. 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